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Horizon 2020
Work Programme 2016 - 2017
2. Future and Emerging Technologies
Important notice on the second Horizon 2020 Work Programme
This Work Programme covers 2016 and 2017. The parts of the Work Programme that
relate to 2017 are provided at this stage on an indicative basis. Such Work Programme
parts will be decided during 2016.
(European Commission Decision C (2015)6776 of 13 October 2015)

HORIZON 2020 - Work Programme 2016 - 2017
Future and Emerging Technologies
Table of contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 4
Call - FET-Open Novel ideas for radically new technologies ...................... 6

FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open research and innovation actions................................ 6
FETOPEN-02-2016: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions .................................... 7
FETOPEN-03-2017: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions .................................... 9
FETOPEN-04-2016-2017: FET Innovation Launchpad ...................................................... 10
Conditions for the Call - FET-Open Novel ideas for radically new technologies ......... 12
Call - FET Proactive Boosting emerging technologies ............................... 17

FETPROACT-01-2016: FET Proactive: emerging themes and communities ..................... 17
FETPROACT-02-2017: FET ERANET Cofund ................................................................. 20
FETPROACT-03-2016: FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies ....................... 21
Conditions for the Call - FET Proactive Boosting emerging technologies..................... 23
Call - FET Proactive High Performance Computing ................................. 26

FETHPC-01-2016: Co-design of HPC systems and applications ........................................ 26
FETHPC-02-2017: Transition to Exascale Computing ....................................................... 27
FETHPC-03-2017: Exascale HPC ecosystem development ................................................ 30
Conditions for the Call - FET Proactive High Performance Computing ...................... 32
Call - FET FLAGSHIPS Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and

technology challenges ........................................................................................ 34
FETFLAG-01-2016: Partnering environment for FET flagships ........................................ 34
Conditions for the Call - FET FLAGSHIPS Tackling grand interdisciplinary science
and technology challenges ..................................................................................................... 36
Other actions ...................................................................................................... 38

1. External expertise ............................................................................................................. 38
2. Graphene FET Flagship core project ............................................................................... 38
3. HBP FET Flagship core project ....................................................................................... 39
Part 2 - Page 2 of 41
Budget ................................................................................................................. 41
Introduction
Future and Emerging Technologies activities help to create in Europe a fertile ground
for responsible and dynamic multi-disciplinary collaborations on future and emerging
technologies and for kick-starting new European research and innovation eco-systems
around them. These will be the seeds for future industrial leadership and for tackling
society's grand challenges in new ways.
FET focuses on research beyond what is known, accepted or widely adopted and supports
novel and visionary thinking to open promising paths towards radically new technological
possibilities. In particular, FET funds interdisciplinary collaborations that seek genuine
cross-fertilisation and deep synergies between the broadest range of advanced sciences
(including the life sciences, social sciences and humanities) and cutting-edge engineering
disciplines.
FET has three main lines of activity:
FET Open supports the early-stages of the science and technology research and
innovation around new ideas towards radically new future technologies. It also funds
coordination and support activities for such high-risk forward looking research to
prosper in Europe.1
FET Proactive addresses promising directions for research on future technologies in

order to build up a European critical mass of knowledge and excellence around them.
FET Flagships are science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives

oriented towards a unifying goal, aiming at transformational impacts with substantial
benefits for European competitiveness and for society.
In this workprogramme, particular attention is paid to tapping into the innovation potential
from the respective FET action lines. For example, actions to stimulate the exploitation of
early results from FET research are foreseen. In order to create a wider and more diverse
support base from which to take these innovations forward, the participation of new actors
and of young and high-potential researchers and high-tech innovators is encouraged.
The approach of FET is in line with the Horizon 2020 Responsible Research and Innovation
(RRI) cross-cutting issue, engaging society, integrating the gender and ethical dimensions,
ensuring the access to research outcomes and encouraging formal and informal science
education. Accordingly, FET encourages wide non-discriminatory participation and outreach
and calls for its participants to pay attention to diversity issues such as gender, age and
culture, being convinced that this can offer new perspectives, pose new questions and open
new areas of investigations.
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Note that 40% of the H2020 budget for FET is earmarked for FET Open.
Silo-breaking research collaborations are a hallmark of most FET actions. They improve
readiness across Europe to take up new research and innovation practices that make
leading-edge research more open, creative and closer to society, for example through 'open
science', the use of advanced modelling, simulation and open collaboration platforms.
Moreover, a variety of creativity-enhancing and artistic practices can be used within research
and innovation approaches, for instance for exploring technological visions, for testing
unexpected technical solutions, developing novel uses of technology or for exploring their
social acceptance. More generally, public engagement aims to bring on board a wide
diversity of actors (researchers, industry, policy makers, civil society organisations, teachers,
artists, citizens etc.) to participate in and/or deliberate on the directions taken by science,
research, technology and innovation. Whenever such approaches are used this should be
clearly reflected in the methodology description of the proposal: the actors/stakeholders to be
engaged, the type of engagement process sought, the objective(s) of the engagement process
(as related to the overall project objectives).
The ethical dimension of the activities undertaken through FET should be analysed and taken
into account. This implies respect of ethical principles and related legislation during the
implementation of the action (data protection and privacy, consent and protection of
participants, potential misuse of the research results, fair benefit sharing, environment
protection, etc.). Beyond this, the ethical considerations should also address the desirability of
the action's potential long term implications (i.e., socioeconomic, climate, sustainability).
FET research is well placed for global collaborations that can raise the level of excellence
and accelerate the impact from global alliances. Thus, participation of excellent non EU
partners in FET activities, whenever necessary, is welcome.
A novelty in Horizon 2020 is the Pilot on Open Research Data which aims to improve and
maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by projects. Projects funded under
the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) part of Work Programme 2016-2017 will by
default participate in the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020. Projects have the
possibility to opt out of the Pilot, provided a justification is given for doing so. Participation
in the Pilot is not taken into account during the evaluation procedure. In other words,
proposals will not be evaluated favourably because they are part of the Pilot and will not be
penalised for opting out of the Pilot. A further new element in Horizon 2020 is the use of Data
Management Plans (DMPs), detailing what data the project will generate, whether and how it
will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and
preserved. The use of a DMP is required for projects participating in the Open Research Data
Pilot. Other projects are invited to submit a DMP if relevant for their planned research. Only
funded projects are required to submit a DMP. Further guidance on the Pilot on Open
Research Data and Data Management is available on the Participant Portal.
Call - FET-Open Novel ideas for radically new technologies

H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017
This call aims to support the early stages of joint science and technology research for radically
new future technological possibilities. The call is entirely non-prescriptive with regards to the
nature or purpose of the technologies that are envisaged and thus targets mainly the
unexpected. A bottom-up selection process will build up a diverse portfolio of projects. In
order to identify and seize opportunities of long-term benefit for citizens, the economy and
society, the early detection of promising new areas, developments and trends, wherever they
come from, will be essential. The FET-Open call also seeks for coordination and support
activities to turn Europe into the best place in the world for responsible collaborative research
and innovation on future and emerging technologies that will make a difference for society in
the decades to come. Finally, a specific topic under this call aims to stimulate innovation by
initiating entrepreneurial activities around results from FET research projects.
Proposals are invited against the following topic(s):
FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open research and innovation actions
Specific Challenge: The successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future
technologies requires supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and
technology projects to investigate new ideas. Here agile, risk-friendly and highly
interdisciplinary research approaches are needed with collaborations that are open to all
sciences and disciplines and that dissolve the traditional boundaries between them. The
renewal of ideas is complemented by the renewal of actors taking these new ideas forward.
Therefore, this topic encourages the driving role of new high-potential actors in research and
innovation, such as excellent young, both female and male, researchers and high-tech SMEs
that may become the scientific and industrial leaders of the future.
Scope: This topic supports the early stages of research to establish a new technological
possibility. Proposals are sought for collaborative research with all of the following
characteristics ('FET gatekeepers'):
Long-term vision: the research proposed must address a new and radical long-term
vision of a science- and technology-enabled future that is far beyond the state of the art
and not currently foreseen by technology roadmaps.
Breakthrough scientific and technological target: research must target a scientifically

ambitious and technologically concrete breakthrough, argued to be a crucial step towards
achieving the long-term vision. The plausibility of the proposed breakthrough(s) to be
attained within the life-time of the project must be argued in the proposal.
Novelty: the research proposed for achieving the breakthrough must be based on cutting-
edge knowledge, new ideas and concepts, rather than in the mere application or
incremental refinement of existing ones.
Foundational: the breakthroughs that are envisaged must be foundational in the sense
that, if achieved, they would establish an essential basis for a new kind of technology
and its future uses, not currently anticipated.
High-risk: the inherently high risk of the research proposed will be reflected in a
flexible but effective methodology for exploring alternative directions and options,
supported by open and agile research and innovation practices.
Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations are expected to go beyond 'waterfall'

configurations in multi-disciplinary science- and technology research. Instead they
should seek new solutions through genuine exchanges, mutual learning, cross-
fertilisation and synergistic advances among distant disciplines in order to open
unexplored areas of investigation and new directions for joint research.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to

EUR 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other
amounts.
Expected Impact:
Initiating or consolidating a baseline of feasibility or a radically new line of technology

and its future uses by establishing the essential proofs-of-principle and their foundational
scientific underpinnings.
Strengthening European leadership in the early exploration of visionary, new and

emerging technologies, beyond academic excellence and with global recognition. This
impact can be reinforced by involving also new high-potential actors such as young, both
female and male, researchers and high-tech SMEs that may become the European
scientific and technological leaders and innovators of the future.
Impact is also sought in terms of the take up of new research and innovation practices for
making leading-edge science and technology research more open, collaborative, creative
and closer to society.2
Type of Action: Research and Innovation action
The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General
Annexes.
FETOPEN-02-2016: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions
Specific Challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for
collaborative research and innovation on future and emerging technologies that will secure
and renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a
difference for society in the decades to come.
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See also the discussion on public engagement in the introduction to this FET workprogramme.
Scope: Proposals should address only one of the following subtopics:
a. FET Communication [2016]: raising the visibility and impact of FET through novel and
creative approaches for reaching out to various stakeholders and well beyond the
research communities. This may include, for example, collecting, aggregating and
disseminating information from the entire range of FET projects and activities, and using
an appropriate mix of channels and formats to engage with the target audiences,
including scientists, students, media, policy makers, the business community and the
general public. This subtopic should include public engagement processes as discussed
in the introduction of this FET Work Programme.
b. FET Exchange [2016]: actions for structuring and strengthening an emerging FET-
relevant science and technology research and innovation topic and the interdisciplinary
communities involved in this topic. This may include, for example, research
roadmapping, stimulating (formal and informal) learning and exchange, expanding the
range of disciplines (including the life sciences and humanities where relevant),
involving new actors such as young researchers, entrepreneurs and high-tech SMEs, and
broadening stakeholder engagement (multi-actor or citizen). One specific theme that
may be addressed is the area of alternative metrics (so-called "altmetrics") to assess
research outputs and researchers.
c. FET Conference [2016]: supporting the organisation of the fourth European Future and
Emerging Technologies Conference and Exhibition (see for example
http://www.fet11.eu/ ). The conference shall showcase progress and results from FET
research, attract high-tech SMEs, investors and entrepreneurs that might take FET results
forward, seed new ideas across disciplines, foster a dialogue between science, policy and
society on future and emerging technologies (through public engagement), explore new
ways of combining research and innovation and involve high-potential actors that will
make the difference. Proposals will address pre-conference communication activities, the
local organisation, participant assistance and post-conference follow-up. The event shall
take place in early 2018.
d. FET Innovation Greenhouse [2016]: actions for establishing a Europe-wide capacity for
innovation, exploitation and entrepreneurship stemming from the visionary, high-risk
interdisciplinary science and technology research supported by FET. Greenhouse
provides innovation support services to help bridging the gap between FET research and
its application in industry and for society. The focus should be on enabling the earlier
creative and learning stages of innovation from FET research, for which the classical
path of business plans and investors is still premature, many options are still open and a
more exploratory, risk-friendly and tailored support is needed. A wide technological
scope, a strong specificity to FET and complementarity with existing greenhouse
initiatives and innovation services are of prime importance. This subtopic also welcomes
support to the actions funded under the FET Innovation Launchpad (FETOPEN-04-
2016-2017) and for networking and exchange among them.
For each of the scope items a) and c) at most one action will be funded.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between
EUR 0.3 and 0.5 million for scope items a), b) and d), and up to EUR 1 million for the scope
item c), would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this
does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected Impact:
Strengthening globally recognised European leadership in the early exploration of

visionary, new and emerging technologies, beyond academic excellence and with a
strong engagement of scientists, citizens, innovators and policy makers.
Improved long-term innovation potential in Europe both from the abundance of novel
ideas and the range of actors ready to take them forward.
Improved understanding of the range of possible impact mechanisms for long-term

science and technology research.
Improved readiness across Europe to engage in silo-breaking research collaboration and

to take up new research and innovation practices.
Type of Action: Coordination and support action
Annexes.
FETOPEN-03-2017: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions
Specific Challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for
collaborative research and innovation on future and emerging technologies that will renew the
basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for
society in the decades to come.
Scope: Proposals should address one of the following topics:
a. FET Futures [2017] 3 : identifying strategy options, challenges and opportunities to

stimulate and organise interdisciplinary research and innovation towards new and
visionary technologies of any kind. Actions should rely on evidence from FET activities
(e.g., portfolio, constituency, results) and from other sources (including other funding
bodies or private initiatives worldwide, like those using prize schemes or challenges).
They should aim at open and dynamic stakeholder participation using creative methods
and on-line tools/social networks. This topic should include public engagement
processes as discussed in the introduction of this FET Work Programme.
b. FET Exchange [2017]: actions for structuring and strengthening an emerging FET-
relevant science and technology research and innovation topic and the interdisciplinary
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This activity directly aimed at supporting the development and implementation of evidence base for R&I policies
is excluded from the delegation to REA and will be implemented by the Commission services.
communities involved in this topic. This may include, for example, research
roadmapping, stimulating (formal and informal) learning and exchange, expanding the
range of disciplines (including the life sciences and humanities where relevant),
involving new actors such as young researchers, entrepreneurs and high-tech SMEs, and
broadening stakeholder engagement (multi-actor or citizen).
For scope item a) at most one action will be funded.
EUR 0.3 and 0.5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
amounts.
Expected Impact:
Strengthening globally recognised European leadership in the early exploration of

visionary, new and emerging technologies, beyond academic excellence and with a
strong engagement of scientists, citizens, innovators and policy makers.
Improved long-term innovation potential in Europe both from the abundance of novel
ideas and the range of actors ready to take them forward.
Improved understanding of the range of possible impact mechanisms for long-term

science and technology research.
Improved readiness across Europe to engage in silo-breaking research collaboration and

to take up new research and innovation practices.
Annexes.
FETOPEN-04-2016-2017: FET Innovation Launchpad
Specific Challenge: FET projects often generate new and sometimes unexpected opportunities
for commercial or societal application. This topic aims at funding further innovation related
work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original project) to verify
and substantiate the innovation potential of ideas arising from FET funded projects and to
support the next steps in turning them into a genuine social or economic innovation.
Scope: Short and focused individual or collaborative actions to take out of the lab a promising
result or proof-of-concept that originated from a FET-funded project and to get it on the way
to social or economic innovation through new entrepreneurship or otherwise. The action will
support the transformation of that specific research result into a credible offering for
economic or social impact, by exploring the feasibility of an exploitation path and by
coordinating and supporting the assembling of the right knowledge, skills and resources and
thus serves as a launch pad for exploitation.
This call topic is focused on the early innovation stages from results of an ongoing or recently
finished project4 funded through FET under FP7 or H2020. The complementarity and precise
link with the relevant FET project is to be explicitly addressed in the proposal by clearly
stating the nature and origin of the results to be taken up, and by adding a confirmation of any
necessary agreements with owners or right holders of those results to move towards their
exploitation. This call topic does not fund additional research, nor does it fund activities that
are/were already foreseen in the relevant FET project. Activities to be funded should be fit-
for-purpose (e.g., tailored to the level of maturity of the result to be taken up) and can include,
among others, the definition of a commercialisation process to be followed, market and
competitiveness analysis, technology assessment, consolidation of intellectual property rights
and strategy, scenario and business case development, developing contacts and support
relevant activities with for instance, industrial transfer partners, potential licence-takers,
investors, societal organisations or potential end users.
By focusing on the very early stage of the innovation path, the scope of this call includes
situations where an SME or other suitable entrepreneurial context may not yet exist.
The Commission considers that proposals for actions no longer than 18 months and requesting
a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 0.1 million would allow this specific challenge to be
addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of
proposals of different duration.
Expected Impact:
Increased innovation potential from FET projects by picking up expected as well as non-
anticipated innovation opportunities.
Creation of concrete and closer-to-market high-potential innovations from FET projects.
Stimulating, supporting and rewarding an open and proactive mind-set towards

exploitation beyond the European research world.
Seeding future growth and the creation of jobs from FET research.
Annexes.
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For a project to be considered 'ongoing or recently finished' in the context of this call topic its end date must be at
most one year before the deadline for proposal submission to this topic.
Conditions for the Call - FET-Open Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Opening date(s), deadline(s), indicative budget(s):5
Topics (Type of Action) Budgets (EUR million) Deadlines
2016 2017
Opening: 08 Dec 2015
FETOPEN-02-2016 (CSA) 3.00 11 May 2016
FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 (RIA) 84.00 110.50 11 May 2016
17 Jan 2017
27 Sep 2017
Opening: 01 Mar 2016
FETOPEN-04-2016-2017 (CSA) 1.20 1.80 29 Sep 2016
27 Sep 2017
Opening: 20 Sep 2016
FETOPEN-03-2017 (CSA) 1.50 17 Jan 2017
Overall indicative budget 88.20 113.80
For FETOPEN-01-2016-2017, an amount of EUR 84.00 million will be equally allocated to

each of the three cut-off dates. The budget for the third cut-off date will be provided in part
from the 2017 budget (EUR 26.50 million) and from the 2018 budget (EUR 57.50 million).
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The Director-General responsible for the call may decide to open the call up to one month prior to or after the
envisaged date(s) of opening.
All deadlines are at 17.00.00 Brussels local time.
The Director-General responsible may delay the deadline(s) by up to two months.
The deadline(s) in 2017 are indicative and subject to a separate financing decision for 2017.
The budget amounts for the 2016 budget are subject to the availability of the appropriations provided for in the
draft budget for 2016 after the adoption of the budget 2016 by the budgetary authority or, if the budget is not
adopted, as provided for in the system of provisional twelfths.
The budget amounts for the 2017 budget are indicative and will be subject to a separate financing decision to
cover the amounts to be allocated for 2017.
Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement signature:
For single stage procedure:
Information on the outcome of the evaluation: Maximum 5 months from the final date
for submission; and
Indicative date for the signing of grant agreements: Maximum 8 months from the final
date for submission.
Eligibility and admissibility conditions: The conditions are described in parts B and C of the
General Annexes to the work programme. The following exceptions apply:
FETOPEN-04-2016- Proposals must build on results from an ongoing or recently

2017 finished project, funded by FET under FP7 or H2020 and clearly
identified in the proposal. For a project to be considered 'recently
finished' in the context of this call topic its actual end date must
be at most one year before the deadline for proposal submission
to this topic. For a project to be considered 'ongoing' in the
context of this call topic the deadline for proposal submission to
this topic must be within the period limited by the contractual
start date and end date of the project.
Proposals must include a declaration by the coordinator of the
necessary rights and ownership of results to be exploited, as
described in the proposal. For applicants that are not the owner
of the result to be taken up in the proposal: letter from the
relevant beneficiary or beneficiaries of the previous FET project
that own(s) the result, that confirms the existence of the
necessary agreements with the coordinator of the current
proposal, including on IPR.
Evaluation criteria, scoring and threshold: The criteria, scoring and threshold are described in
part H of the General Annexes to the work programme. The following exceptions apply:
FETOPEN-01-2016- Excellence
2017
Compliance with the FET-gatekeepers as described in the call:
Clarity and novelty of long-term vision, and ambition and

concreteness of the targeted breakthrough towards that
vision.
Novelty, non-incrementality and plausibility of the proposed

research for achieving the targeted breakthrough and its
foundational character.
Appropriateness of the research methodology and its

suitability to address high scientific and technological risks.
Range and added value from interdisciplinarity, including

measures for exchange, cross-fertilisation and synergy.
Threshold: 4/5, Weight: 60%
Impact
Contributions to the impacts listed under this topic in the
workprograme:
Importance of the new technological outcome with regards

to its transformational impact on technology and/or society.
Impact on future European scientific and industrial

leadership, notably from involvement of new and high
potential actors.
Quality of methods and measures for achieving impact

beyond the research world and for establishing European
though leadership, as perceived by industry and society.
Threshold: 3.5/5, Weight: 20%
Quality and efficiency of the implementation
The following aspects are taken into account:
Soundness of the workplan and clarity of intermediate

targets.
Relevance of expertise in the consortium.
Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-

months, equipment).
FETOPEN-04-2016- Excellence
2017
Clarity and quality of the innovation idea and its link with
the previous or ongoing FET project indicated in the
proposal.
Concreteness of objectives and their pertinence for moving

the output of FET research through the initial steps of a
process leading to a commercial or social innovation.
Suitability and necessity of the proposed activities to reach

the stated objectives, including their complementarity to
actions already foreseen or expected from the previous or
ongoing FET project.
Impact
Contributions to the impacts listed under this topic in the
workprograme:
Added innovation potential with respect to the FET project

from which this innovation originates.
Extent of economic and/or societal benefits resulting from

this innovation as identified in the proposal.
Suitability of measures for taking the innovation beyond the

research world, including through engagement with
prospective exploitation partners, other stakeholders, users or
society.
Quality of workplan and management.
Relevance of expertise in the consortium.

months).
Evaluation Procedure: The procedure for setting a priority order for proposals with the same
score is given in part H of the General Annexes. The following exceptions apply:
FETOPEN-01-2016- Due to the nature of the FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 call, specific

2017 page limits apply. Part B of the proposal should consist of a title
page plus up to a maximum of 15 A4 pages. The limits will be
clearly shown in the proposal templates in the Participant Portal
electronic submission system. Sections which are not subject to
limits will be indicated.
FETOPEN-04-2016- Due to the nature of the FETOPEN-04-2016-2017 call, specific
2017 page limits apply. Part B of the proposal should consist of a title

FETOPEN-01-2016- At consensus stage, the consensus score for each evaluation
2017, FETOPEN-02- criteria will be the median of the corresponding scores attributed
2016, FETOPEN-03- by the individual evaluators and consensus report will comprise a
2017, FETOPEN-04- collation of the comments from individual reports, or extracts
2016-2017 from them. Final scores and any additional comments are
decided by the final panel review.
FETOPEN-02-2016 For each of the subtopics a) and c) at most one action will be
funded.
FETOPEN-03-2017 For subtopic a) at most one action will be funded.
The full evaluation procedure is described in the relevant guide published on the Participant
Portal.
Consortium agreement: Members of consortium are required to conclude a consortium

agreement, in principle prior to the signature of the grant agreement.
Call - FET Proactive Boosting emerging technologies

H2020-FETPROACT-2016-2017
FETPROACT-01-2016: FET Proactive: emerging themes and communities
Specific Challenge: To mature a number of novel areas and themes by working towards
structuring emerging communities and supporting the design and development of
transformative research themes. The main benefits of this structuring yet explorative approach
are emerging novel areas that are not yet ready for inclusion in industry research roadmaps,
and building up and structuring of new interdisciplinary research communities around them. It
makes the step from collaborations between a small number of researchers, to larger
collaborations addressing various aspects of a novel research theme to jointly explore
possibilities for, and long-term implications of future technologies that matter.
Scope: Proposals should address research and innovation activities, aimed at jointly exploring
directions and options to establish a solid baseline of knowledge and skills, and to foster the
emergence of a broader innovation ecosystem for a new technology as well as a fertile ground
for its future take-up (e.g., through public engagement processes when relevant, or through
formal and informal education). Proposals should address a single of the specific subtopics
within one of the following areas:
Area 1: Future technologies for societal change
a. Being human in a technological world: critical interdisciplinary explorations of

potentially game-changing impacts of future technologies on humanity, in plausible as
well as in extreme scenarios. This can include individual, gender, organisational,
economic, cultural and societal impacts, for instance from changes to self- or social
perception, to our narratives, or to human development (e.g., cognitive, physical) or
evolution. Visions being addressed should be radically forward looking and relatively
unexplored, such as hyperconnectivity, human augmentation, hybridisation of nature,
life extension, extra-sensorial perception or real/virtual blending. The work should
provide fresh perspectives that challenge current thinking, include ethical and social
aspects, reflecting on the purposes, impacts and motivations for the research and
innovation activity, the associated uncertainties, areas of ignorance, assumptions,
questions and dilemmas; and by this crystalize through active stakeholder engagement
concrete options for shaping a worthwhile and responsible future.
b. New science for a globalised world : tools and methods (mathematical, technological,
social/organisational,) for the collaborative study, projection and engineering of large
scale open socio-technological and ecological systems characterised by complexity and
inherent uncertainty due to, among others, partial knowledge, ignorance and conflicting
world-views by different actors. These tools and methods should include the study of
informal opinion groups emerging on the Internet at a global level, and focusing on
global topics such as Global Systems Science as a new integrative science approach, the
emergence of global solutions as patchworks of local ones, non-rationality, the impact of
open-data, the dynamics of social and cultural divides, of peace and conflict, and various
incentives, drivers and enablers of change and innovation, including the arts.
Area 2: Biotech for better life
a. Intra- and inter-cell bio-technologies: new technologies to enable the study and
engineering of processes within and between biological cells, and their exploitation for
purposes such as sensing, signalling, imaging, regulating, curing or for mimicking or re-
engineering the intra- and inter-cell physics and dynamics. This can include the use of
natural cells, optimised, therapeutic and compound, synthetic ones or combinations of
these, as well as cell-free techniques. Where needed, multiscale mathematical modelling
and computational simulation can be included. Proposals under this subtopic should also
explore the paradigm-changing potential of these technologies, for instance in the bio-
medical field.
b. Bio-electronic medicines and therapies: using adaptive nerve or brain stimulation for
precise regulatory control of organs or other biological processes inside the human body,
in order to restore or maintain healthy conditions. This includes technologies for bio-
electronic medicines, drug-free therapies, adaptive drug release, closed-loop BNCI, more
invasive stimulation, or development of neurotransmitter sensor/actuator systems, all
within a setting of personalised and adaptive medicine and the tight integration of
diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities (theranostics). A Responsible Research and
Innovation approach, including aspects of ethics, as well as social science and
humanities should be taken into account.
c. Cognitive neuro-technologies: integrated interdisciplinary approaches combining theory

and novel technology-based experiments for understanding the circuits and pathways of
higher-level cognitive functions (such as navigation, goal-oriented behaviour, motivation
and reward, memory, knowledge and belief formation, reasoning and decision making,
emotion, interaction, communication), the related principles of neural coding and
operation within and between brain regions and the role of the physical and
social/cultural environment in bringing them about. Proposals should focus on non-
validated, leading-edge methodologies and technologies specifically relevant to
cognitive neuroscience. Target applications could include, for example, adaptive human
interfaces, specific brain interfaces and neuro-prosthetics to restore or support cognitive
functions or to address unmet therapeutic needs.
Area 3: Disruptive information technologies
a. New computing paradigms and their technologies: new foundations for computing,
including bio-, nature- and socio-inspired ones that can encompass also aspects of
communication, interaction, mimickry or differentiation (adaptation, learning,
evolution), as well as non-technological aspects like organisational or physical/virtual
architectural ones, and tailored to future and emerging challenges and requirements in
highly interdisciplinary settings and for new kinds of mathematical and computational
approaches in science.
b. Quantum engineering: reproducible, economical and scaleable approaches, architectures

and techniques for designing and realising devices and systems that exploit quantum
phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, for achieving new or radically
improved functionalities (for instance in sensing, precision measurement, transduction,
secure communication, control, simulation and computation) and demonstrated in the
context and boundary conditions of a specific application area (for example in the
biological, medical, materials, process, energy or standards domain).
c. Hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the nano-scale: new working principles and

their first-time validation in nano-, molecular- or atomic-scale devices based on the
interaction and mutual control of multiple physical degrees of freedom to achieve new or
radically improved functionalities and application scenarios under plausible operating
conditions. The interacting degrees of freedom are those involved in e.g. nano-optics,
nano-scale electromagnetism, nano-mechanics and phonons and fluctuations.
Area 4: New technologies for energy and functional materials
a. Ecosystem engineering:6 new models, materials, processes, devices and systems going
beyond a single dimension for extreme energy and resource efficiency and recovery, and
footprint management into circular ecosystems (energy, raw materials, waste, water,).
New approaches and technologies for extremely efficient energy generation (e.g.,
artificial photosynthesis or microfluidic conversion), transfer, conversion, high-density
storage and consumption. The targeted improvements with respect to the state of the art
are to be stated in quantitative terms. Genuine cross-fertilisation and deep synergies
between the broadest range of advanced sciences and cutting-edge engineering
disciplines for emerging ecological technologies seeking holistic paradigms, striving to
reduce or eliminate the environmental impact, and the replacement of toxic/pollutant
substances by ecofriendly materials should be considered. First time validation and
assessment of these results in the context of integrated synergetic circular economy
solutions or other quasi self-sufficient environments.
b. Complex bottom-up construction: new technologies and methods for self-organisation,

assembly and adaptation of materials and physical devices/systems with complex
functionality (including for instance energy storage, conversion or recovery), complex
composition and/or spanning a range of scales (nano, meso) and with superior properties
on each of them. Energy and resource/material availability, ecofriendlyness and
efficiency are to be taken into account). Where needed, multiscale mathematical
modelling and computational simulation of materials and related production or self-
organisation processes can be included.
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This topic is aligned with the Commission communication SWD(2014) 211 'Towards a circular economy: a zero
waste programme for Europe' and its annex, which describes specific contributions expected from FET.
EUR 4 and 10 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
When appropriate, this allows for proposals to provide financial support to third parties in line
with the conditions set out in Part K of the General Annexes, for example to access specific
expertise, to enhance impacts or to award an inducement prize following a contest organised
by the beneficiaries.
The Commission further considers that proposals with a duration up to 5 years would allow
this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude
submission and selection of proposals of different duration.
The funding budget per area is with a maximum of EUR 20 million for each of the areas 1 and
4, and a maximum of EUR 30 million for each of the areas 2 and 3.
Expected Impact:
Establish a solid baseline of knowledge and skills for a future technology in the theme
addressed.
Goal oriented community structuring and true interdisciplinary collaboration.
Emergence of an innovation ecosystem around a future technology in the theme

addressed from outreach to and partnership with high potential actors in research and
innovation, and from wider stakeholder/public engagement.
Annexes.
FETPROACT-02-2017: FET ERANET Cofund
Specific Challenge: To support the maturation of novel research topics and structuration of
the corresponding communities in the FET domain, in complementarity and synergy with the
FET actions directly funded by the Commission, and while fostering cross-fertilisation and
synergies between the supported topics and communities. This reflects that the participating
funding organisations share the objectives of the FET programme and would amplify its
funding and activities through this ERA-NET. The overarching goal is to enhance the
construction of the European Research Area in the FET domain, by sharing a common vision
of the various efforts in Europe in this domain and fostering cooperation towards the
coordinated development of these technologies.
Scope: Proposals should coordinate national and regional programmes for research in the FET
domain by implementing a joint transnational call for proposals (resulting in grants to third
parties) with EU cofunding. Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities
related to the coordination of public research and innovation programmes, such as
transnational networking, meetings and technology transfer activities, as well as additional
joint calls without EU cofunding. These activities should in particular cover the following
areas:
Share information on existing research programmes, strategic research agendas and

technological roadmaps, among research funding organisations and with the relevant
other stakeholders;
Jointly identify emerging topics where transnational cooperation and support to

community structuration is most needed, in complementarity with the FET programme;
Develop strategic agendas for these topics and accompany the structuration of the related
communities though workshops and support to transversal activities.
Expected Impact:
Amplification of the support to FET topics at the national level;
Faster emergence of technologies through enhanced coordination;
Identification and emergence of candidate FET Proactive and FET Flagship topics and
communities;
Enhanced complementarities and synergies in Europe in the FET domain.
Type of Action: ERA-NET Cofund
Annexes.
FETPROACT-03-2016: FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies
Specific Challenge: Research on quantum technologies in Europe is currently funded through

several targeted initiatives at European, national and regional level. The aim is to foster
synergy between these initiatives in the area of quantum technologies in order to create
collaborations among the best groups in Europe and fostering broader partnerships around
them to spread excellence and to broaden the European footprint of this emerging technology
area.
Scope: Proposals should coordinate national and regional programmes for research in the area
of quantum technologies by implementing a call jointly funded by the participating states with
EU cofunding resulting in grants to third parties. This call shall address the following topics:
New principles, experiments, technologies, devices and systems that exploit quantum
phenomena like entanglement and superposition to achieve new of radically enhanced
functionalities.
Demonstration and critical assessment of these advancements in comparison to classical

or other quantum-based technological options.
Exploration of advanced quantum enabled applications in areas of scientific, industrial or

societal interest, linked to a critical assessment of feasibility beyond the technical (e.g.,
in terms of innovation potential, acceptability and industrial/societal take-up).
Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities related to the coordination of
public research and innovation programmes in quantum technologies, such as transnational
networking, training, technology transfer and additional joint calls without EU co-funding.
Expected Impact:
Closer coordination and greater mobilisation and pooling of resources between regional,
national and EU research programmes in the area of quantum technologies.
Increased transnational collaboration on quantum technologies, especially on topics that

are complementary to the EU workprogrammes in this area.
Spreading of excellence on quantum technologies across Europe.
Establishment and alignment of national and regional research and innovation plans and
initiatives in the area of quantum technologies.
Identification of promising directions for future research programming through a

comprehensive overview on multiple lines of development across Europe.
Increased awareness of national and regional research and innovation interests, synergies
and complementarities in the area of quantum technologies and their applications.
Type of Action: ERA-NET Cofund
Annexes.
Conditions for the Call - FET Proactive Boosting emerging technologies
2016 2017
Opening: 08 Dec 2015
FETPROACT-01-2016 (RIA) 80.00 12 Apr 2016
FETPROACT-03-2016 (ERA-NET-Cofund) 10.00
Opening: 20 Sep 2016
FETPROACT-02-2017 (ERA-NET-Cofund) 5.00 24 Jan 2017
for submission; and
General Annexes to the work programme.
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part H of the General Annexes to the work programme. The following exceptions apply:
FETPROACT-01-2016 Excellence
Clarity of targeted breakthroughs and of the science and

technology contributions towards establishing a solid
baseline of knowledge and skills for the specific theme being
addressed.
Novelty, level of ambition and foundational character.
Appropriateness of the methodology to narrow down

multiple options and to address high scientific and
technological risks.
Range and added value from interdisciplinarity, including

measures for exchange, cross-fertilisation and synergy.
Impact
The extent to which the outputs of the project contribute at the
European or International level to:
the expected impacts listed under this topic in the

workprogramme.
the transformation of technology and/or society.
structuring effects on multidisciplinary communities of

researchers and stakeholders.
innovation potential and leadership from the emergence of a

new innovation ecosystem, the empowerment of new and
high potential actors and from public engagement.
Quality of the workplan and clarity of intermediate targets.
Relevant expertise in the consortium.

months, equipment).
FETPROACT-01-2016 At consensus stage, the consensus score for each evaluation

criteria will be the median of the corresponding scores attributed
by the individual evaluators and consensus report will comprise a
collation of the comments from individual reports, or extracts
from them. Final scores and any additional comments are
decided by the final panel review.
Due to the nature of the FETPROACT-01-2016 call, specific
page limits apply. Part B of the proposal should consist of a title
When selecting projects for funding, from the budget available
for this topic a maximum of EUR 20 million will be allocated for
each of the areas 1 and 4, and a maximum of EUR 30 million for
each of the areas 2 and 3.
FETPROACT-02- Given the specific nature and strategic objective of the ERANET
2017, FETPROACT- Cofund instrument, at most one ERANET Cofund will be funded
03-2016 under each of these topics.
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Call - FET Proactive High Performance Computing

H2020-FETHPC-2016-2017
The FET-Proactive call on HPC aims at the next steps for leveraging the existing European
strengths for building the next generation of extreme performance computing and taking
advantage of the new opportunities created from the transition from peta to exascale
computing. The ultimate goal is to achieve world-class extreme scale computing capabilities
in platforms, technologies and applications.
The call complements the other building blocks under the e-Infrastructures and LEIT-ICT
parts of Horizon 2020 of the European HPC strategy. The implementation of this HPC
strategy in Horizon 2020 combines three elements: (a) developing the next generation of HPC
towards exascale; (b) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services; and
(c) achieving excellence in HPC applications. The Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the
European Technology Platform in HPC (ETP4HPC), which started on 1 January 2014,
provides the framework for the implementation of elements (a) and (c) of the HPC strategy,
based on the Strategy Research Agenda (SRA) of the ETP4HPC.8
FETHPC-01-2016: Co-design of HPC systems and applications
Specific Challenge: Achieve world-class extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient
HPC platforms through a strong co-design approach driven by ambitious applications and in
close cooperation with the scientific disciplines and stakeholders concerned; achieve the full
range of technological capabilities needed for delivering a broad spectrum of extreme scale
HPC systems. The designs of these systems must respond to critical demands of energy
efficiency, scale, resilience, programmability and support for various classes of applications
including extreme-data applications.
Scope: Proposals with innovative and ground-breaking approaches to system architectures

targeting extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient platforms with emphasis on
balanced compute and data access characteristics. Special attention should be given to
extreme data processing requirements. Proposals should have a strong co-design approach
driven by a mix of ambitious applications and in close cooperation with the various scientific
disciplines and stakeholders concerned. Proposals should show how their proposed solution
improves energy efficiency and demonstrate the reduced energy-to-solution for the selected
applications. Possible strategies for improving energy efficiency may include: reducing PUE
(Power Usage Effectiveness), designing of cost-efficient approaches to the reuse of thermal
energy, reducing the amount of energy spent for communication and data movement.
Proposals should address the problem of maintaining reliability, coping with run-time errors
and enabling stable operation of an HPC system that is able of extreme scaling; this issue may
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be addressed through holistic detection/recover approaches covering and orchestrating all

layers of the HPC stack as well as significant advancements in fault prediction algorithms and
smarter tools to prevent faults. Proposals should provide analytical or simulation models that
allow to extrapolate the sustained performance on the given architecture for HPC systems.
The target system architectures must scale to at least 100 PFlops and, for compute-centric
workloads, a target of 15MW for 250 PFlops peak performance in 2019 is suggested.
Proposals should explain how these scalability and energy-efficiency targets are achieved for
the considered applications. APIs and interfaces between applications and underlying
middleware, run-time and operating systems, i.e. all application-aspects impacting the
underlying system design are included in this topic. Proposals should be able to demonstrate
their achievements in integrated pre-exascale prototypes.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution between EUR 10 and 20
million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this
Expected Impact:
Contribution to the realisation of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda, thus

strengthened European research and industrial leadership in HPC technologies.
Proof-of-concept through integrated pre-exascale prototypes for future energy-efficient

exascale-class HPC systems and optimal co-design driven by ambitious applications.
Covering important segments of the broader and/or emerging HPC markets, especially
extreme-scale HPC systems.
Impact on standards bodies and other relevant international research programmes and
frameworks.
Annexes.
FETHPC-02-2017: Transition to Exascale Computing
Specific Challenge: Take advantage of the full capabilities of exascale computing, in

particular through high-productivity programming environments, system software and
management, exascale I/O and storage in the presence of multiple tiers of data storage,
supercomputing for extreme data and emerging HPC use modes, mathematics and algorithms
for extreme scale HPC systems for existing or visionary applications, including data-intensive
and extreme data applications in scientific areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, life
sciences, materials, climate, geosciences, etc.
Scope: Proposals should address one or more of the following subtopics:
a) High productivity programming environments for exascale: Proposals should have as

target to simplify application software development for large- and extreme-scale systems.
This can include the development of more productive programming models and
environments, the easier combination of different programming models, and using increased
intelligence throughout the programming environment. Key aspects include managing data
transfers, data locality and memory management, including support for heterogeneous and
reconfigurable systems as well as dealing with inter-application dynamic load balancing and
malleability, adapting to changes in the number of processors. Unified performance tools are
required supporting HPC, embedded and extreme data workloads, on diverse target systems.
APIs, runtime systems and the underlying libraries should support auto-tuning for
performance and energy optimisation. Automated support for debugging and anomaly
detection is also included under this subtopic. To provide simplified development and to
ensure the maintainability of domain-specific languages (DSLs), DSL frameworks are
required which target a general-purpose stable programming model and runtime. Since large
future systems will require the use of multiple programming models or APIs, an important
aspect is interoperability and standardisation of programming model, API and runtime as well
as the composability of programming models (the capability of building new programming
models out of existing programming model elements)
b) Exascale system software and management: Proposals should advance the state of the art
in system software and management for node architectures that will be drastically more
complex and their resource topology and heterogeneity will require OS and runtime
enhancement, such as data aware scheduling. In the area of hardware abstraction, proposals
should address run time handling of all types of resources (cores, bandwidth, logical and
physical memory or storage) and controls, e.g. for optimised data coherency, consistency and
data flow. For applications, proposals should address new multi-criteria resource allocation
capabilities and interaction during task execution, with the aim to improve resilience,
interactivity, power and efficiency. To cope with the exploding amount of data, the sequential
analysis process (capture, store, analyse) is not sufficient; proposals should explore on-the-fly
analysis methods offering reactivity, compute efficiency and availability. Graphical
simulation interaction will require new real-time features; configuration and deployment tools
will have to evolve to take into account the composability of software execution
environments.
c) Exascale I/O and storage in the presence of multiple tiers of data storage: proposals
should address exascale I/O systems expected to have multiple tiers of data storage
technologies, including non-volatile memory. Fine grain data access prioritisation of
processes and applications sharing data in these tiers is one of the goals as well as
prioritisation applied to file/object creates/deletes. Runtime layers should combine data
replication with data layout transformations relevant for HPC, in order to meet the needs for
improved performance and resiliency. It is also desirable for the I/O subsystem to adaptively
provide optimal performance or reliability especially in the presence of millions of processes
simultaneously doing I/O. It is critical that programming system interoperability and
standardised APIs are achieved. On the fly data management supporting data processing,
taking into account multi-tiered storage and involving real time in situ/in transit processing
should be addressed.
d) Supercomputing for Extreme Data and emerging HPC use modes: HPC architectures
for real-time and in-situ data analytics are required to support the processing of large-scale
and high velocity real-time data (e.g. sensor data, Internet of Things) together with large
volumes of stored data (e.g. climate simulations, predictive models, etc.). The approaches
should include support for real-time in-memory analysis of different data structures, direct
processing of compressed data and appropriate benchmarking method for performance
analysis. Interactive 3-D visualisation of large-scale data to allow users to explore large
information spaces in 3-D and perform on-demand data analysis in real-time (e.g. large scale
queries or analytics) should be addressed. Interactive supercomputing is required to execute
complex workflows for urgent decision making in the field of critical clinical diagnostics,
natural risks or spread of diseases; this implies adapting operational procedures of HPC
infrastructures, developing efficient co-scheduling techniques or improving checkpoint/restart
and extreme data management
e) Mathematics and algorithms for extreme scale HPC systems and applications
working with extreme data: Specific issues are quantification of uncertainties and noise,
multi-scale, multi-physics and extreme data. Mathematical methods, numerical analysis,
algorithms and software engineering for extreme parallelism should be addressed. Novel and
disruptive algorithmic strategies should be explored to minimize data movement as well as the
number of communication and synchronization instances in extreme computing. Parallel-in-
time methods may be investigated to boost parallelism of simulation codes across a wide
range of application domains. Taking into account data-related uncertainties is essential for
the acceptance of numerical simulation in decision making; a unified European VVUQ
(Verification Validation and Uncertainty Quantification) package for Exascale computing
should be provided by improving methodologies and solving problems limiting usability for
very large computations on many-core configurations; access to the VVUQ techniques for the
HPC community should be facilitated by providing software that is ready for deployment on
supercomputers.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between
EUR 2 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
amounts. Proposals should clearly indicate the subtopic which is their main focus. At least
one project per subtopic will be funded.
Expected Impact:
Contribution to the realisation of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda, thus

strengthened European research and industrial leadership in HPC technologies.
Successful transition to practical exascale computing for the addressed specific element
of the HPC stack.
Covering important segments of the broader and/or emerging HPC markets, especially
extreme-computing, emerging use modes and extreme-data HPC systems.
Impact on standards bodies and other relevant international research programmes and
frameworks.
European excellence in mathematics and algorithms for extreme parallelism and extreme
data applications to boost research and innovation in scientific areas such as physics,
chemistry, biology, life sciences, materials, climate, geosciences, etc.
Annexes.
FETHPC-03-2017: Exascale HPC ecosystem development
Specific Challenge: To develop a sustainable European exascale HPC Ecosystem.
Scope: Proposals should address a single of the two following subtopics:
a) Coordination of the Exascale HPC strategy and International Collaboration: Proposals must
include activities for promoting a joint community structuring and synchronisation; the further
development and update of the Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing
as well as the application and applied mathematics exascale roadmaps; prepare the ground for
targeted international research collaboration on specific aspects of the exascale challenges.
Proposed actions should also seek to create synergies with other HPC related activities under
H2020, in particular concerning the underlying basic technologies that are required for
exascale computing (e.g. LEIT/Advanced Computing, LEIT/Photonics, and ECSEL
(Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership)); and concerning the relevant
research in applications, the progress of which critically relies on cutting-edge HPC systems
(LEIT/Big-Data, LEIT/Cloud area as well as relevant research in applications emerging from
the H2020 Societal Challenges in domains such as health (e.g. VPH initiative), genomics,
climate change, energy, mobility and smart cities).
b) Excellence in Exascale Computing Systems: The focus should be in boosting European

HPC academic research excellence in future exascale-class computing cutting across all levels
hardware, architectures, programming, applications and including specific actions to
better structure the European academic HPC research, create stronger links with HPC
providers and HPC users, attract venture capital, promote entrepreneurship and foster industry
take-up.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution between EUR 1 and 2
million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this
Expected Impact:
Strengthened European research and industrial leadership in the supply, operation and
use of HPC systems.
Contribution to the realisation of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda.
Development of a competitive European ecosystem for building and exploiting a wide

range of next-generation extreme performance computing systems.
Structuring the efforts of stakeholders for implementing the European HPC strategy.
Reinforced cooperation in international endeavours on HPC software and systems

towards exascale.
European Excellence in Exascale Computing systems.
Annexes.
Conditions for the Call - FET Proactive High Performance Computing
2016 2017
Opening: 14 Apr 2016
FETHPC-01-2016 (RIA) 41.00 27 Sep 2016
Opening: 12 Apr 2017
FETHPC-02-2017 (RIA) 40.00 26 Sep 2017
FETHPC-03-2017 (CSA) 4.00
for submission; and
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part H of the General Annexes to the work programme.
score is given in part H of the General Annexes.
Portal.

Call - FET FLAGSHIPS Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and

technology challenges
H2020-FETFLAG-2016
Flagships are science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives oriented

towards a unifying goal, aiming at transformational impacts on science and technology and
substantial benefits for European competitiveness and society. The goals of such initiatives
are visionary and highly ambitious in terms of scientific challenges, resources and coordinated
efforts. They require cooperation among a range of disciplines, communities and national,
regional and European programmes. The implementation model of the Flagships and their
governance structure are described in the Commission Staff Working Document on FET
Flagships10.
Two Flagships, Graphene and the Human Brain Project, have been launched in 2013, as well
as an ERANET action bringing together national and regional funding agencies from several
Member States and Associate Countries in support of the two Flagships. A Framework
Partnership Agreement (FPA) has been established for each of the two Flagships, creating a
stable and structured partnership between the Commission and research organisations that are
committed to implement the Flagships. This work programme aims to launch actions to
advance the two Flagships on the basis of these FPAs, following an initial Specific Grant
Agreement (SGA) and other actions launched under previous work programmes.
FETFLAG-01-2016: Partnering environment for FET flagships
Specific Challenge: To support funding and coordination of partnering projects (PPs) of the
two Flagships.
PPs are projects supported by national/regional funding agencies and/or by private funding.
They are addressing areas relevant for the Flagships and contribute to their objectives. Their
role and activities and their integration into the Flagships were described in the above
mentioned Staff Working Document11.
The aim is to bring together national funding agencies from Member States and Associated
Countries to fund such PPs, as well as supporting these and other PPs in their networking,
coordination and participation in Flagship activities.
Scope: Proposals should address a single of the two following subtopics:
a. ERA-NET Cofund action: one follow-up action to the FLAG-ERA ERANET

(http://www.flagera.eu/) aiming to coordinate national and regional research programmes to
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fund PPs of the two Flagships through a joint transnational call for proposals (resulting in
grants to third parties) between several such programmes complemented by EU co-funding,
possibly followed by further calls for proposals without EU co-funding. The action may also
organise additional joint activities between the participating funding agencies in support of
the two Flagships.
b. Coordination and Support action: one action will be funded which will support all of the
following points, for both Flagships:
the participation of PPs in meetings, workshops or other relevant activities organised by

the Core Project of each Flagship;
the participation of PPs in the governance activities of each of the Flagships;
the networking and coordination of the PPs for helping them contribute to the research
roadmaps of each Flagship and for disseminating their activities to promote Flagships at
the regional/national level.
Proposals under this subtopic need to demonstrate how they add value beyond the activities
already foreseen in the Flagships to liaise with PPs.
The action under this subtopic should be driven by (one or more) stakeholders representing
relevant scientific communities.
Expected Impact: a. ERA-NET Cofund action
Closer coordination and greater mobilisation and pooling of resources between regional,
national and EU research programmes for realising the research goals of the FET Flagships;
b. Coordination and Support Action
Creating mutual benefit between the PPs and their Core Project, enhancing the impact of the
Flagships on national and regional research programmes and fostering the role of PPs in the
governance of the Flagships.
Type of Action: Coordination and support action, ERA-NET Cofund
Annexes.
Conditions for the Call - FET FLAGSHIPS Tackling grand interdisciplinary science
and technology challenges
2016
Opening: 10 Nov 2015
FETFLAG-01-2016 (ERA-NET-Cofund) 8.00 01 Mar 2016
FETFLAG-01-2016 (CSA) 1.00
Overall indicative budget 9.00
for submission; and
part H of the General Annexes to the work programme.
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FETFLAG-01-2016 Given the specific nature and strategic objective of the ERANET
Cofund instrument, at most one ERANET Cofund will be funded
under the relevant subtopic.
Given the strategic objective of the Coordination and Support
Action called for, at most one Coordination and Support Action
will be funded under the relevant subtopic.
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1. External expertise
This action will support:
The use of appointed independent experts for the monitoring of running projects, where
appropriate.
The use of appointed independent experts to assist with the interim evaluation of the two
FET Flagships, including their governance and implementation mechanisms, as defined
in the Commission Staff Working Document on FET Flagships14. A special allowance of
EUR 450/day will be paid to the experts appointed in their personal capacity who act
independently and in the public interest.
The use of appointed independent experts to advise on, or support, the design and
implementation of EU research and innovation policy or programmes as well as the
achievement and functioning of the European Research Area. A special allowance of
EUR 450/day will be paid to the experts appointed in their personal capacity who act
independently and in the public interest.
Type of Action: Expert Contracts
Indicative budget: EUR 1.00 million from the 2016 budget and EUR 1.98 million from the
2017 budget
2. Graphene FET Flagship core project
Within the Graphene Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) awarded under topic
FETFLAG 1 - 2014 of the Call FET Flagships, the selected consortium will be invited to
submit a proposal for a second Specific Grant Agreement (SGA) that will implement the next
two years (indicative) of the action plan defined in the FPA.
The proposal should adhere to the programme of activities as envisioned in the FPA. It should
address key parts of the FPA research roadmap while taking into account, whenever relevant,
the changing state of the art throughout the world.
The proposal should describe how the coordination and management of the overall Flagship
initiative as described in the FPA is implemented. The coordinating role must include in
particular the concrete actions needed to ensure the overall continuity and coherence in the
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management of the Flagship initiative, such as (i) the governance of the Flagship initiative as
a whole, (ii) updating the research roadmap and its innovation branches, and (iii) the
collaboration with other research initiatives or programmes at regional, national, European or
international level.
The proposal should focus on those areas that have the greatest innovation potential and
impact on economy and society. This may require refocusing the Flagship resources
accordingly. Any modification to the FPA selected Consortium partners should be sufficiently
motivated and based on the highest standards of scientific and technological excellence and
on open and transparent criteria.
The proposal should detail activities in areas such as human capital, education and training,
dissemination, ethics and societal aspects.
This action allows for the provision of financial support to third parties in line with the
conditions set out in Part K of the General Annexes.
Expected impact: Contributions to the targeted impacts defined in the action plan of the FPA.
Type of Action: Specific Grant Agreement
6-years Graphene Framework Partnership Agreement with identified beneficiary and specific
grants awarded to identified beneficiary for Research and Innovation Action under the
Framework Partnership Agreement.
The standard evaluation criteria, thresholds, weighting for award criteria and the maximum
rate of co-financing for this type of action are provided in parts D and H of the General
Annexes.
Indicative timetable: Second quarter of 2017
Indicative budget: EUR 88.00 million from the 2017 budget
3. HBP FET Flagship core project
Within the Human Brain Project (HBP) Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) awarded
under topic FETFLAG 1 - 2014 of the call FET Flagships, the selected consortium will be
invited to submit a proposal for a second specific Grant Agreement (SGA) that will
implement the next two years (indicative) of the action plan defined in the FPA.
The proposal should adhere to the programme of activities as envisioned in the FPA. It should
describe how the activities carried out during the first SGA will be built upon, maintaining a
multi-disciplinarily approach and involving the relevant scientific communities in
neuroscience, medicine and computing. It should take into account, whenever relevant,
progress made by other large brain research initiatives.
The proposal should explain how the project will involve the related scientific and medical
communities, including a large number of end-users, in the development and validation of the
HBP ICT platforms and ensure their wide adoption and use. It should also explain how the
HBP partners will trigger concrete innovation activities by liaising with industry and other
relevant stakeholders.
The proposal should describe how the coordination and management of the overall Flagship
initiative as described in the FPA is implemented. The coordinating role must include in
particular the concrete actions needed to ensure the overall continuity and coherence in the
management of the Flagship initiative, such as (i) the governance of the Flagship initiative as
a whole, (ii) updating the research roadmap and its innovation branches, and (iii) the
collaboration with other research initiatives or programmes at regional, national, European or
international level.
The proposal should detail activities in areas such as human capital, education and training,
dissemination, ethics and societal aspects.
This action allows for the provision of financial support to third parties in line with the
conditions set out in Part K of the General Annexes.
Expected impact: Contributions to the targeted impacts defined in the action plan of the FPA.
Type of Action: Specific Grant Agreement
6-years Human Brain Project Framework Partnership Agreement with identified beneficiary
and specific grants awarded to identified beneficiary for Research and Innovation Action
under the Framework Partnership Agreement.
The standard evaluation criteria, thresholds, weighting for award criteria and the maximum
rate of co-financing for this type of action are provided in parts D and H of the General
Annexes.
Indicative timetable: Second quarter of 2017
Indicative budget: EUR 88.00 million from the 2017 budget
Budget15
Budget line(s) 2016 Budget 2017 Budget

(EUR million) (EUR million)
Calls
H2020-FETOPEN-2016- 88.20 113.80

2017
from 09.040101 88.20 113.80
H2020-FETPROACT-2016- 90.00 5.00

2017
from 09.040101 90.00 5.00
H2020-FETHPC-2016-2017 41.00 44.00
from 09.040101 41.00 44.00
H2020-FETFLAG-2016 9.00
from 09.040101 9.00
Other actions
Expert Contracts 1.00 1.98
from 09.040101 1.00 1.98
Specific Grant Agreement 176.00
from 09.040101 176.00
Estimated total budget 229.20 340.78
15
The budget figures given in this table are rounded to two decimal places.

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Work Programme 2016 - 2017

2. Future and Emerging Technologies

Important notice on the second Horizon 2020 Work Programme

(European Commission Decision C (2015)6776 of 13 October 2015)

Call - FET-Open Novel ideas for radically new technologies ...................... 6

Call - FET Proactive Boosting emerging technologies ............................... 17

Conditions for the Call - FET Proactive Boosting emerging technologies..................... 23

Call - FET Proactive High Performance Computing ................................. 26

Call - FET FLAGSHIPS Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and

Other actions ...................................................................................................... 38

FET has three main lines of activity:

FET Proactive addresses promising directions for research on future technologies in

FET Flagships are science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives

Call - FET-Open Novel ideas for radically new technologies

Proposals are invited against the following topic(s):

FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open research and innovation actions

Breakthrough scientific and technological target: research must target a scientifically

Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations are expected to go beyond 'waterfall'

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to

Initiating or consolidating a baseline of feasibility or a radically new line of technology

Strengthening European leadership in the early exploration of visionary, new and

Type of Action: Research and Innovation action

FETOPEN-02-2016: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

Scope: Proposals should address only one of the following subtopics:

Strengthening globally recognised European leadership in the early exploration of

Improved understanding of the range of possible impact mechanisms for long-term

Improved readiness across Europe to engage in silo-breaking research collaboration and

Type of Action: Coordination and support action

FETOPEN-03-2017: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

Scope: Proposals should address one of the following topics:

a. FET Futures [2017] 3 : identifying strategy options, challenges and opportunities to

For scope item a) at most one action will be funded.

Strengthening globally recognised European leadership in the early exploration of

Improved understanding of the range of possible impact mechanisms for long-term

Improved readiness across Europe to engage in silo-breaking research collaboration and

Type of Action: Coordination and support action

FETOPEN-04-2016-2017: FET Innovation Launchpad

Creation of concrete and closer-to-market high-potential innovations from FET projects.

Stimulating, supporting and rewarding an open and proactive mind-set towards

Type of Action: Coordination and support action

Opening date(s), deadline(s), indicative budget(s):5

Topics (Type of Action) Budgets (EUR million) Deadlines

Opening: 08 Dec 2015

FETOPEN-02-2016 (CSA) 3.00 11 May 2016

FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 (RIA) 84.00 110.50 11 May 2016

Opening: 01 Mar 2016

FETOPEN-04-2016-2017 (CSA) 1.20 1.80 29 Sep 2016

Opening: 20 Sep 2016

FETOPEN-03-2017 (CSA) 1.50 17 Jan 2017

Overall indicative budget 88.20 113.80

For FETOPEN-01-2016-2017, an amount of EUR 84.00 million will be equally allocated to

Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement signature:

For single stage procedure:

FETOPEN-04-2016- Proposals must build on results from an ongoing or recently

Clarity and novelty of long-term vision, and ambition and

Novelty, non-incrementality and plausibility of the proposed

Appropriateness of the research methodology and its

Range and added value from interdisciplinarity, including

Importance of the new technological outcome with regards

Impact on future European scientific and industrial

Quality of methods and measures for achieving impact

Soundness of the workplan and clarity of intermediate